Rouge-pad



W. G. KENDALL.

ROUGE PAD.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.23| I918.

Patented Apr. 26, 1921.

WITNESS:

A TTORNEYI PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM G. KENDALL, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

ROUGE-IPAD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 26, 1921.

Application filed December 23, 1918. Serial No. 268,066.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. KENDALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rouge-Pads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to rouge pads and is designed as. an improvement on the pad shown in my Patent No. 1,194,185, issued August 8, 1916. i

The pad forming the subject matter of my prior'patent is in the nature of a shallow container having an integral bottom or base portion and an upstanding inturned flange, the rouge being in powdered form,

' being compressed in this container so as to form a cake retained by the said flange. In the manufacture of these padsI have employed various metals such, for example, as brass and aluminum. While the article is complete in itself, it has been customary for me to place the pad, with the compressed rouge cake contained therein,'in a container such, for example, as a vanity case, and in an effort to securely and permanently anchor the pad to the bottom of the vanity case or other container, I have employed an adhesive for uniting the under face of the bottom of the pad to the upper face of the bottom of. the container. It has been my experience, however, that this means of anchoring the pad within the container is not entirely satisfactory, for it is impracticable to find any adhesive which will establish a permanent union between metal surfaces. As a result, after the article has been in use for some length of time and the powder puff has been repeatedly rubbed over the face of the rouge cake, the union between the parts is destroyed and the pad will then shift about within the container when the powder puff is applied to the rouge. There is also the likelihood of the rouge pad being dropped from the container or vanity case if the latter is carelessly manipulated and, of course, the dropping of the pad is very likely to result in fracture and disintegration of the rouge cake. In consideration of the foregoing it is the object of the present invention to so improve the construction of the pad that it may be conveniently, securely, and permanently anchored to the bottom of the vanity case or other container through the employment of any ordinary adhesive, thus overcoming the disadvantages of the previously patented form of pad and producing a better article and one which will prove more satisfactory in use as there is no likelihood of the pad becoming detached or separated from the bottom of the contalner.

It is well known that paper or pasteboard may be securely united to a metal surface through the employment of most ordinary mucilages and glues, and I have taken advantageof this fact in the development of my present lnvention, the invention consistlug-1n a specific embodiment, in forming an opening in the bottom or base portion of the pad and placing within the pad a disk of paper or pasteboard a portion of the surface of which isexposed through the said opening so that a suitable adhesive may be applied to it for the purpose of uniting 1t to the upper surface of the bottom of the vanity case or other container and thus securely anchoring in place the rouge pad proper, the rouge cake being formed in the usual manner by compressing the rouge powder in the pad and on top of the said disk of paper, pasteboard, or other material selected.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure l is a perspective view of a rouge pad in which the principles of the present invention are embodied;

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional View through the pad before its introduction into the container;

Fig. 3 is a group perspective view illustrating the rouge pad proper and the disk which has heretofore been mentioned and which is to provide the adhesive receiving surface;

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2 but illustrating also the container and the manner in which the pad is secured within the container.

In the drawings, the rouge pad which s indicated in general by the numeral 1 1s ordinarily made of metal such for example, as brass or aluminum although the more precious metals may be employed if desired, and the said pad comprises a bottom or base portion 2 of substantially circular shape and provided at its periphery with an upwardly and inwardly extending flange 3. As before stated, it has heretofore been my custom to make the bottoms or bases 2 of these pads integral or imperforate, but for the reasons previously stated I now find it advisable to form in the bottom 2 an opening 4; which may be of any desired diameter and either circular as shown in the drawings or of any other shape. The disk here- Y tofore referred to is indicated by the numeral 5 and this disk may be of heavy paper, pasteboard, cardboard, cloth, a composition of paper and cloth, wood, or in fact of any material which is fibrous and therefore absorbent and which is otherwise suitable for the purpose. By fibrous mate rial I mean any material of a fibrous na ture whether it consists wholly or only in part of fibers. The function of the disk, as has previously been explained, is to afford a medium whereby the pad proper may be securely anchored to the bottom of the container, through the application of an adhesive to the contacting faces of the disk and the said bottom of the container. Therefore one of the prime requisites of the mate rial which is to form the disk is that said material be of such nature that it will readily take adhesive, and therefore any mate rial possessing this property may be employed for the purpose, provided, of course, that it is of sufficient strength to provide a secure anchorage. and approximately of the same diameter as the base or bottom 2 of the pad proper and the disk is disposed within the pad resting upon the upper face of the said bottom 2 as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings. In the production of the article,-after the pad proper and disk have been assembled in the manner stated, the rouge powder is compressed within the pad to form a cake 6 and by the act of compressing of the powder into cake form, the central portion of the disk 5 will be forced downwardly into the opening 4:, or depressed, as indicated by the numeral 7 so that the under face of the central portion of the disk 5, in the completed article, will occupy substantially the same plane as the under face of the bottom or base portion 2 and will therefore be so positioned as to contact the upper face of the bottom of the container when the pad is disposed within the container. The pad may be disposed and secured within containers of various types and in Fig. 4 of the drawings there is illustrated a con ventional form of vanity case or box, indicated by the numeral 8 and having the usual bottom 9 and closed by the usual lid 10. As will be observed by reference to this figure,

when the rouge pad constructed in accordance with the present invention is disposed within the container, the under face of the portion 7 of the disk 5 will contact the upper face of the bottom 9 of the container.

The disk 5 is circular In order to securely anchor the pad within the container, adhesive is applied, as indicated by the numeral 11, to the said under face of the depressed portion 7 of the disk 5 and upon drying or hardening will firmly and permanently unite the disk to the said bottom of the container and as the disk is securely anchored at its peripheral portion within the pad between the bottom of the mucilages or glues, presumably because of the fact that such surfaces do not possess any marked degree of porosity and therefore do not readily take the adhesive. Consequently, in accordance with the present invention, I am enabled to obtain the results aimed at through the provision of a rouge pad, a portion of the base or bottom of which is of absorbent material, and preferably a material which is fibrous, it being an established fact that such a mate rial may be united securely and permanently to a metallic surface by ordinary adhesives.

While I have illustrated and described the principles of the invention embodied in a rouge pad, it is to be understood that the invention may equally as well find embodi ment in holders or pads for various other cosmetics, whether such holders or pads be in the nature of shallow cup-like containers or merely disks or plates provided with or devoid of mechanical means for uniting the cosmetic cake or the like thereto.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A metallic cosmetic pad formed with an opening, and an absorbent adhesive receiving disk disposed within the pad and exposed at the exterior of the pad through said opening.

2. A metallic cosmetic pad formed in its base with an opening, and a disk of absorbent material anchored within the pad and exposed at the exterior of the pad through said opening, the said disk being depressed within the opening.

3.. As a new article of manufacture, a me tallic pad comprising a shallow .container having an opening in its bottom, a cosmetic cake anchored within the container, and a disk of absorbent material disposed between WILLIAM G, KENDALL. [11.8.] 

